Sex and the Revanchist City: Zoning out Pornography in New York
@article{Papayanis2000SexAT, title={Sex and the Revanchist City: Zoning out Pornography in New York}, author={Marilyn Adler Papayanis}, journal={Environment and Planning D: Society and Space}, year={2000}, volume={18}, pages={341 - 353} }
This paper is an investigation of the social, economic, legal, and cultural factors underlying the move, in New York City, to regulate the sale of pornographic materials through the promulgation of zoning laws. The campaign to zone out pornography, a point of solidarity around which a number of disparate and often hostile interest groups have rallied in order to reclaim public space in the name of community (as though the term itself were transparent and monovocal) is linked to both…
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